MAVProxy

A UAV ground station software package for MAVLink based systems

MAVProxy

MAVProxy is a fully-functioning GCS for UAV's. The intent is for a minimalist, portable and extendable GCS for any UAV supporting the MAVLink protocol (such as the APM).

Features

It is a command-line, console based app. There are plugins included in MAVProxy to provide a basic GUI.

Can be networked and run over any number of computers.

It's portable; it should run on any POSIX OS with python, pyserial, and select() function calls, which means Linux, OS X, Windows, and others.

The light-weight design means it can run on small netbooks with ease.

It supports loadable modules, and has modules to support console/s, moving maps, joysticks, antenna trackers, etc

Tab-completion of commands.

Running under Ubuntu:

Running under Windows 7:

Download and Installation

Windows

The easiest way to install on Windows is to use the pre-built package available at
http://uav.tridgell.net/MAVProxy. If
you use this pre-built package then all dependencies (including
python) are installed automatically.

Alternatively you can build it yourself by installing the required
python packages.

Linux

Linux users can use the PyPi program to get the needed packages:
sudo apt-get install python-pip

Then download and install MAVProxy. Prerequisites will be automatically downloaded too. Note a sudo may be required in some circumstances if the install generates errors.
pip install MAVProxy

The following other packages may also be required (via apt-get or similar):

python-opencv

python-wxgtk

Mac

Some users have reported difficulties with installing wxPython on the latest version of OSX. These issues have not yet been resolved, so you may have mixed results trying to get MAVProxy up and running.

OSX should require the same prerequisties as for the Windows installations.